Adelaide Apache Spark User Group 2016 Kick Off

Welcome to the Adelaide Apache Spark User Group.

Food and drink at this month's meetup will be sponsored by Servian and MapR @ 5:45pm for a 6pm kickoff.

Look forward to kicking off with you on the 6th of April.

Agenda

Andy Huang - Managing Consultant @ Servian (http://www.servian.com.au); Spark Introduction - What is Spark and How is it used - Demo of Spark

Andy is a Managing Consultant from Servian. He solution architects and manages number of projects utilising Spark at tier one clients across Australia and New Zealand. Andy has extensive experience in the data warehouse, business intelligence and analytics domain. His has a focus on big data analytics and machine learning

Adrian Smolski - Solution Architect @ MapR; Spark on MapR Converged Data Platform

Adrian works as the Enterprise Solution Architect (Pre-Sales) at MapR in a customer focused, hands-on technical role to support the sales activities in the ANZ region. Adrian also presents MapR's Data vision, propose optimal parallel-scalable platform solutions for his clients, and participates in RFP/I and PoCs.

If you would like to present and/or sponsor a venue/catering for this meetup, please get in touch!